Anthony Gonzalez, the man who makes up the French electronic group M83, was in the States for a few days over the weekend, playing Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday and Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival on Sunday night.He talks about confronting violent bouncers at his Ohio show on Saturday night (one report described a very perturbed Gonzalez), new recording projects, Michael Jackson's death and still-under-wraps deals to do movie soundtracks. This interview was taped about an hour before M83's set
Last weekend, Nick Lucchesi headed up to Chicago to cover this year's Pitchfork Music Festival. In case you missed his reports, here's a handy-dandy list of links to his photos, interviews and reviews:
*A Flaming Lips photo essay
*A video interview with M83's Anthony Gonzalez
*Black Lips and the National